(SOLD) Extremely Fine Silver Wire Japanese Meiji Cloisonné Vase with Photo-realistic Depiction of Corn or Maize Plants
(SOLD) This is a rare vase with an unusual design. The vase is in round form with a flared mouth on a short, stout round neck and with broad shoulders sloping down from the neck and tapering down to a narrow foot. The mounts are gold-gilt brass and the throat plate and base are worked by hand-incising to develop abstract patterns.
The design is of three corn, or maize, plants replicated in very fine detail with all of the veins on the leaves delineated with silver wires. Bare silver wires are used to replicate the silk (the loose hairlike tubular female receptors for pollen falling or transferred by insects from the male flowers above held high above the corn stalk). There are several ears of corn bulging in their husks and one ear is exposed showing kernels of corn. To the right of center flows a very small finely wired butterfly, a likely pollinator. There are elaborate geometric and arabesque borders at the mouth and on the bottom of the vase.
The vase is 7” tall. It is unsigned bu the work of a master. We have seen several examples of other vases signed by Tamura but this is not sufficient evidence for an attribution. The stand is for display purposes only and is not part of the sale.
(SOLD) This is a rare vase with an unusual design. The vase is in round form with a flared mouth on a short, stout round neck and with broad shoulders sloping down from the neck and tapering down to a narrow foot. The mounts are gold-gilt brass and the throat plate and base are worked by hand-incising to develop abstract patterns.
The design is of three corn, or maize, plants replicated in very fine detail with all of the veins on the leaves delineated with silver wires. Bare silver wires are used to replicate the silk (the loose hairlike tubular female receptors for pollen falling or transferred by insects from the male flowers above held high above the corn stalk). There are several ears of corn bulging in their husks and one ear is exposed showing kernels of corn. To the right of center flows a very small finely wired butterfly, a likely pollinator. There are elaborate geometric and arabesque borders at the mouth and on the bottom of the vase.
The vase is 7” tall. It is unsigned bu the work of a master. We have seen several examples of other vases signed by Tamura but this is not sufficient evidence for an attribution. The stand is for display purposes only and is not part of the sale.
(SOLD) This is a rare vase with an unusual design. The vase is in round form with a flared mouth on a short, stout round neck and with broad shoulders sloping down from the neck and tapering down to a narrow foot. The mounts are gold-gilt brass and the throat plate and base are worked by hand-incising to develop abstract patterns.
The design is of three corn, or maize, plants replicated in very fine detail with all of the veins on the leaves delineated with silver wires. Bare silver wires are used to replicate the silk (the loose hairlike tubular female receptors for pollen falling or transferred by insects from the male flowers above held high above the corn stalk). There are several ears of corn bulging in their husks and one ear is exposed showing kernels of corn. To the right of center flows a very small finely wired butterfly, a likely pollinator. There are elaborate geometric and arabesque borders at the mouth and on the bottom of the vase.
The vase is 7” tall. It is unsigned bu the work of a master. We have seen several examples of other vases signed by Tamura but this is not sufficient evidence for an attribution. The stand is for display purposes only and is not part of the sale.